坎 (kǎn)
Ridge; threshold; hurdle (metaphorical).
How 坎 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 土 — earth
- Traditional
- 坎
- Simplified
- 坎 (unchanged)
Components
- 土 earth
- 欠 yawn
Common words using 坎
- 坎坷 kǎnkě
- bumpy (of a road); rough (of life); to be down on one's luck
- 坎兒 kǎnr
- critical juncture; key moment
- 心坎 xīnkǎn
- bottom of one's heart
- 赤坎 chìkǎn
- Chikan district of Zhanjiang city 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 shi4], Guangdong
- 坎坎 kǎnkǎn
- (dialect) just now
- 坎坷不平 kǎnkěbùpíng
- pot-holed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
- 坎子 kǎnzi
- raised ground; bank
- 坎昆 kǎnkūn
- Cancún
- 坎特伯雷 kǎntèbóléi
- Canterbury, England
- 坎肩 kǎnjiān
- sleeveless jacket (usually cotton); Chinese waistcoat
- 布坎南 bùkǎnnán
- Buchanan
- 赤坎區 chìkǎnqū
- Chikan district of Zhanjiang city 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 shi4], Guangdong
坎 in a sentence
這是人生必須跨過的一個坎。
Zhè shì rénshēng bìxū kuàguò de yī gè kǎn.
“This is a hurdle in life that must be crossed.”
How common is 坎?
坎 is the 2,441st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.4% of all running text.
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